October 13, 2018

Complexities of HREFLang Implementation – Source File Issues

The first step of developing and deploying HREFLang Elements for your site is understanding and gathering your source files.  The purpose of this article is to outline some of the challenges we see with building the lists of URL’s and suggestions for overcoming them. Challenge 1 – XML Site Maps […]
October 11, 2018

HREFLang Builder Wins Best Software Innovation

HREFBuilder recently won the Best Software Innovation category at the MENA Search Awards and wanted to share some of the key innovations that helped us with the win: Innovation 1 – Mapping and Managing Large Scale Websites For most websites using available scripts or WordPress plugins to add HREFLang tags […]
May 17, 2018

Site with Most HREFLang XML Site Map Errors

Most global companies build their XML site maps dynamically from their various CMS systems. This results in the potential for numerous errors from broken pages, redirected pages, and canonical pages being added to the files. In some cases, the local market versions are not even updated after the first build. […]
May 17, 2018

Incorrect Global Canonical Tag Implementation

While attending Search Marketing Summit Sydney I was asked of the attendees to take a look at their HREFLang implementation.   They had spent hours looking at it but Google still gave errors saying they did not have alternatives set.   As we have identified before, one of the reasons the search engine […]
May 2, 2018

Incorrect hreflang Implementation Error Notice

MAY 20, 2016 BY BILL HUNT This past week Google has sent out a large number of notices for sites that have Incorrect HREFlang Implementations. The notice looks like this one below references two of the most common errors. Both of these errors are described below. Error 1 – Problem […]
May 1, 2018

Adding HREFLang Link Elements to Global Site Directories

JUNE 09, 2016 BY BILL HUNT Our testing tool was generating some incorrect errors from large sites that were using the HREFlang in the body of pages to designate different language versions in their country locator. Note, this HREFLang element is NOT the same as the one for Search Engines. […]
May 1, 2018

Using Screaming Frog to Find In-page HREFLang Mark-up

JULY 30, 2016 BY BILL HUNT Our HREFLang Checker is a great tool if you are checking a single page and its alternatives. However, if you need to check your entire site and identify pages with hreflang mark-up there are not many options. With the new release of Screaming Frog […]
May 1, 2018

HREFlang Error Pointing to Same URL for Each Reference

JULY 31, 2016 BY BILL HUNT We are starting to see more and more of these errors where the site uses the same alternate URL for each of its entries. The image below will help make the problem clearer. We believe it is one of the free tools that is […]